Discussion: Walker: 'My View Has Changed' On Immigration

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Yep. Those teachers, nurses, cops, firemen and librarians make pretty formidable thugs, especially when they walk in circles outside your office chanting in the cold.

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And, sir, will your view on immigration change again, once you’ve survived the primaries?

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I wonder what happens when the Koch Bros., realizing the advantages of cheap labor, tell their boy to “change his view” once again? The old flip flop flip!

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He has confessed and renounced his sin in his heart. He has come to Conservative Jesus and been forgiven. Who are we to question that?

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Indubitably. You bet it will. That’s why he’s toast.

If he doesn’t change that view, he only has a quarter of the electorate that believe that no path to citizenship is a good thing, and who will vote for him, never getting more than a sliver of the Teabagger vote.

If he changes his view after the primary, he’s a pandering fraud in the mold of Mittwit…which he actually is, by the way…and he disqualified himself that way.

He really is a political novice at this sort of thing. You’d think the Koch Bros., with all their money, could have prepared him better. Looks like they aren’t even trying, thinking perhaps all it takes is money and nasty political ads when the time comes. Christ Christie probably thought the same thing…and he’s already toast. In fact, he’s almost stuck in the gate after the rest of the bozos have already trotted out onto the racetrack.

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Every Republican candidate for POTUS is provided with a Mitt-approved “reset button” to be used before declaring oneself a candidate for POTUS … and then used once again by the party nominee before the general election in order to appear more moderate and electable.

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For Pete’s sake.

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“I am disappointed by the federal judge’s ruling to block Arizona’s right to enforce the rule of law without interference from the federal government. As governor, I will sign similar legislation to the Arizona Law to ensure the taxpayers of Wisconsin are not paying for benefits like Badger Care and in state college tuition for people who are here illegally.”

Source: 2010 gubernatorial press release, “AZ Law” , Jul 28, 2010

“If people want to come here and work hard and benefit, I don’t care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or Canada or South Africa or anywhere else, I want them here.”

“Not only do they need to fix things for people already here, or find some way to do it, there’s got to be a larger way to fix the system in the first place. Because if it wasn’t so cumbersome, if there wasn’t such a long wait, if it wasn’t so difficult to get in, we wouldn’t have the other problems that we have (with people living here illegally).”

Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, “Endorses path to citizenship” , Jul 3, 2013

“We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I’m not for amnesty, I’m not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington… we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn’t mean amnesty.”

ABC 2/1/2015

“My view has changed,”

FOX 3/1/ 2015

BONUS FACT:
Remember that Wisconsin agriculture is greatly dependent on a ready supply of migrant workers

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Walker was also reminded that the president is black. That was a huge factor. Because Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and both Bush presidents took executive action re: immigrants. And not a peep from the GOP then.

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I have lived on the Mexican border for nearly 50 years now. I have seen the ebb and flow of changing immigration policies. I can assure all that Scott Walker hasn’t the 1st clue about life here, or how to “secure” the border. He’s a damned joke. But more thn the Mexican border…how does he propose to "secure the Canadian border? It’s well over 2500 miles long, one of the longest borders on the planet. Yes the Canadians are our friends but so are Mexicans. what Walker is espousing is just total Bull poop.

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“a legal immigration system that works” But only works for white protestant folks from western Europe.

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Scott Slither – the slimiest snake in the RepubliCON zoo.

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I guess it would be too much for him to give a reasoned, nuanced explanation of the thought processes and/or information (sans punched out talking points) that made his ideas on immigration “evolve.”

Yes, it would be too much. Because well…it was none of the above.

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Actually, Jeb Bush speaks Spanish, too.

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That’ll leave a mark.

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Walker’s perfecting the political moonwalk. His supporters can pillory the libs by saying he’s for a legal path to citizenship for illegals, whilst taking comfort in the fact that he is not. By the 2020 campaign, all GOP presidential hopefuls will have to show the base they can walk forwards and backwards at the same time on any given issue.

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Now we know Scott’s secret weapon-- The source of all his strength that makes him so powerful-

Pandering to the right wing. Sure it may sound stupid but stupid is the secret ingredient.

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Fighting those union thugs and dropping out of college…what a man!

Who paid for his college education?

Entitled simpleton…

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what a leader!!!

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I think I’ll punt…no…I’ll change sides!!!

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